EPISODE · Oct 1, 2025 · 1H 7M
Are less hierarchical firms organized around stronger cultures? (Marchetti & Puranam, 2025)
from Revise and Resubmit - The Mayukh Show · host Mayukh Mukhopadhyay
English Podcast Start at 00:00:00Bengali Podcast Start at 00:20:50Hindi Podcast Start at 00:41:09ReferenceMarchetti, A., & Puranam, P. (2025). Are less hierarchical firms organized around stronger cultures? Evidence from big data. Strategic Management Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.70020Youtube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcherConnect over linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mayukhpsm/Welcome to Revise and Resubmit 🎙️ Where ideas sharpen. Where sentences sprint, stroll, and sing. Where research meets real work.Today we crack open 🧠 “Are less hierarchical firms organized around stronger cultures? Evidence from big data” by Arianna Marchetti and Phanish Puranam. Published online on 01 October 2025 in Strategic Management Journal—yes, that prestigious FT50 journal 🏛️—from John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ⭐Short sentence. Big stakes. They analyze 1.5 million Glassdoor reviews 📊 and 42 million professional profiles to map hierarchy across 23,000 U.S. firms. The signal is clear: as managerial layers thin, culture thickens. Fewer rungs, stronger drumbeat. Less ladder, more language. Less command, more cohesion.Why? Two stories compete. Fragmentation says hierarchy splinters tribes. Functional equivalence says strong culture does the aligning that managers used to do. The data hums a tune: functional equivalence gets the nod. Culture becomes the operating system. Values are the protocol. Selection and socialization are your deployment pipeline 🚀This is not just clever. It’s consequential. Want to “flatten”? Don’t just cut layers—craft rituals. Don’t just redraw org charts—rewrite shared meanings. Hire for fit, teach the lore, rehearse the moves. Make the few things that matter matter to everyone. That’s how a thin spine carries a strong body 🧬If you love insights like this, tap follow and subscribe now: Revise and Resubmit on Spotify 🔔, and our YouTube home, Weekend Researcher ▶️. We’re also streaming on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcast 🍏 so you can learn while you commute, code, or caffeinate.Huge thanks to the authors, Arianna Marchetti and Phanish Puranam, and to the publisher, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., for this landmark contribution. 🙏So tell me: if your team lost one managerial layer tomorrow, what shared story would hold the work together? 🤔
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English Podcast Start at 00:00:00Bengali Podcast Start at 00:20:50Hindi Podcast Start at 00:41:09ReferenceMarchetti, A., & Puranam, P. (2025). Are less hierarchical firms organized around stronger cultures? Evidence from big data. Strategic Management Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.70020Youtube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcherConnect over linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mayukhpsm/Welcome to Revise and Resubmit 🎙️ Where ideas sharpen. Where sentences sprint, stroll, and sing. Where research meets real work.Today we crack open 🧠 “Are less hierarchical firms organized around stronger cultures? Evidence from big data” by Arianna Marchetti and Phanish Puranam. Published online on 01 October 2025 in Strategic Management Journal—yes, that prestigious FT50 journal 🏛️—from John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ⭐Short sentence. Big stakes. They analyze 1.5 million Glassdoor reviews 📊 and 42 million professional profiles to map hierarchy across 23,000 U.S. firms. The signal is clear: as managerial layers thin, culture thickens. Fewer rungs, stronger drumbeat. Less ladder, more language. Less command, more cohesion.Why? Two stories compete. Fragmentation says hierarchy splinters tribes. Functional equivalence says strong culture does the aligning that managers used to do. The data hums a tune: functional equivalence gets the nod. Culture becomes the operating system. Values are the protocol. Selection and socialization are your deployment pipeline 🚀This is not just clever. It’s consequential. Want to “flatten”? Don’t just cut layers—craft rituals. Don’t just redraw org charts—rewrite shared meanings. Hire for fit, teach the lore, rehearse the moves. Make the few things that matter matter to everyone. That’s how a thin spine carries a strong body 🧬If you love insights like this, tap follow and subscribe now: Revise and Resubmit on Spotify 🔔, and our YouTube home, Weekend Researcher ▶️. We’re also streaming on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcast 🍏 so you can learn while you commute, code, or caffeinate.Huge thanks to the authors, Arianna Marchetti and Phanish Puranam, and to the publisher, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., for this landmark contribution. 🙏So tell me: if your team lost one managerial layer tomorrow, what shared story would hold the work together? 🤔
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